Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:36:40PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:
> > > 
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png
> > 
> > Thanks for posting this -- quite impressive. It would be nice to
> > upload a few such multi-lingual screenshots to a grub-gallery section
> > of the wiki, don't you think..?
> 
> When more translations will be done I will consider/do it. If someone
> wants to do please go ahead :-)

I wish I could.. elegant scripts like Bengali, Tamil, would be such a
nice addition to the usual 7-bit ascii sreenshots. 

> > Nice to see that there are users who are able to do some useful stuff
> > with the new grub, especially since lately, I have seen a couple of
> > trolls spreading some pretty inane FUD about the new grub on the
> > debian-user mailing list.
> 
> I haven't read the insane FUD(s). One important thing that we are on it
> (Bruce I think) is writing documentation. Ok, we usually don't like it,
> but the time spent writting http://grub.enbug.org/TestGettext payedback
> very fast with the screenshots and I hope that more translators testing
> the translations... and people understanding a bit how it works or how
> to test it.

Inane, not insane.. But I thought I'd mention the fact that on usually
fairly rational mailing lists such as debian's, there appears to be a
trend right now.. some inexperienced user hoses his box, complains, and
a few would-be gurus start spreading rumors.. 

> (This is my only my opinion)

Hopefully decent doc will put paid to this in no time.

Thanks,

CJ